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Here’s the latest on Robert Dunn’s photography projects:

  • Not only photobooks, but now … Books on Photography! Two new publications are out. The Mysteries of Light: Illumination, Intention, and Desire in Photobooks and Mirrors and Smoke: How I Became a Photographer are in stores and on Amazon in both print and for Kindle. Links: AMZ Mysteries of Light and AMZ Mirrors and Smoke. And Barnes and Noble: Mysteries of Light and Mirrors and Smoke.

  • Too old for TikTok? Guess again. Here’s our TikTok channel, featuring my assistant Chloe as she helps me with all things photobooks and photography.

  • I’ve recently joined Glass, a new social media site for photographers, to post new shots and photos from ongoing book projects. Check it out: My Glass Page. Bye-bye Instagram!

  • A bunch of new books coming soon, in a set called NYC 2021—a companion to Woodstock 2020, which was my pandemic box. Books will include Shuttertown, Naked, and Cool Struttin’. Oh, and I’ve just completed Red Balloon … with a surprise inside! Not to mention Searching for Infinity, my first book of composite photos.

  • Woodstock 2020, comprised of Bad Moon/Code Sun, Surf City, and Ragged and Dirty, is still on sale in-store and online at Dashwood and Printed Matter, and at Karma Bookstore 136 E 3rd Street in NYC.

• My very first book, OWS, has recently been added to a fascinating site on protest books. Here’s its entry. And here’s the home page for Protest in Photobooks

• Rave two-part piece on my photobooks now up on the esteemed review site NighthawkNYC. Part One and Part Two

• Most all of my books are now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library, as well as for sale at PS1 MOMA. I’m also teaching a photobook class at New School University. And reviewing books for Photobookstore Magazine

• Love Japanese photobooks? Please read my Japan Journal about my trip to Tokyo in 2018 to search for rare books. Here are Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

• A number of my photobooks are available at Dashwood Books and Printed Matter, including an otherwise out-of-print edition of my first photobook, OWS, about Occupy Wall Street. OWS was chosen for the AWAKE Reading Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art during the PGH Photo Fair from 29-30 April, 2017; as part of the traveling show, OWS was also at the Magnum Foundation, 59 East 4th Street, 7th Floor, on June 17, 2017.

• We’re also hard at work producing a compendium of photos, Bone Dust & Fever Dreams. Full news on its publication when we have it. (Update: ARC now available.)